306 pages (large print) ; 24 cm

Zagreb, 1991: Ten-year-old Ana Juric is living with her family in a small apartment when civil war breaks out across Yugoslavia, splintering her idyllic childhood. Her sense of safety starts to fray as daily life is altered by food rations and air raid drills, and football matches are replaced by sniper fire. When the war arrives at her doorstep, Ana must find her way in a dangerous world ... New York, 2001: Ana is now a college student in Manhattan. Still haunted by the events that forever changed her family, she returns to Croatia after a decade away, hoping to make peace with the place she once called home. As she faces her ghosts, she must come to terms with her country's difficult history, and the events that interrupted her childhood years before

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